Helen Carpenter holidays in Canada with her parents. Arriving in a small national park, she ends up caring for orphaned grizzly bear cubs until she has to leave to go home. She desperately does not want to leave but doesn't know how she could possibly stay. An old Indian medicine woman predicts Helen will save many bears and learn to walk again with the help of the bears. Read what happens as dramatic events u
This sequel follows the progress of Mavis into the legal profession as an articled clerk and we see the clients she represents and witness the cases she deals with.
Arnold Pigg dips his toe into the intriguing pool which is Whitehall and samples top quality food and a few other delights.
George spends some of his inheritance upon a new house for himself and Mavis to live in but will he ask her
It's 2003. The ‘For Sale' sign hangs over the public sector and the UKplc is steering towards a financial crash. Our narrator, ‘Captain' Jack Pinkbeard, a small-town civil service misfit is drifting easily on the outskirts of retirement.
But his comfortable existence evaporates when he is forcibly privatised by Blair's government and transferred to the regimented multinational Te
It is April 2008. World financial markets are under stress and may be about to implode. Brian Jenkins is a newly appointed investment strategist at a London-based hedge fund. In the act of preparing a presentation, he stumbles across information suggesting his firm might be involved in money laundering.
But what is at the heart of this evidence? Why would it involve the murder of a security guard? As events
Dedicated to the real Hank and Frank, Henry and Frankie, my dear son and our dog. As Henry grows up, together we work to move through challenges with a mindset of learning. When we face a hard moment, we think about what coping tools we need to practice to get through this moment. We normalize that growing up and learning is full of challenges and mistakes and that can lead to hard, messy, and beautiful moments. T
Erin and Sasha are best friends. They have been best friends since primary school and have grown up together. Now they work together at the local university and enjoy the carefree existence of young women who have the rest of their lives before them. But one day, events take a turn none of them can foresee and Erin is left to face a life alone without her best friend. But do those that love us ever really leave us
As an adopted child, Emma battled a lot with her own emotions. Especially her question about her foster parents' love towards her, that it was never real, and being bullied in school as she grows up and not having anyone to talk to was traumatizing.
Emma wanted to do a lot of things as she was growing up, but never had her mother's support and she was never, not once, there for her. It took her year
In a junkyard, Macklyn Farrago encounters the strange Mr. Abbas who has created a most extraordinary car as a symbol for mankind. But it does not work. Together they are propelled across America on a quest to find a man who may hold the answers to their questions, and inadvertently trigger a semi-religious, semi-millennial, global craze. It's all fueled and manipulated by the grasping media billionaire Sebasti
It is January 1939, eight months before the start of WW2. German residents, Gunter Schmied, his wife, Adelheid, and his son, Heinrich, are sent to live in London as German spies in order to collect information that will be of assistance to the Third Reich. Heinrich is ordered to join the Royal Navy as a wireless operator, where he will be privy to classified information regarding the ship's movements.
H
Jane Austen's masterpiece moves on apace: with two remaining daughters yet to be married off, the socially aspiring Mrs Jane Bennet dedicates herself to finding suitors for Mary and Kitty.
That is the plan...
A little - how to phrase it delicately? - local difficulty instantly puts paid to that genteel ambition and the Bennets' lives are catapulted into chaos, confusion and social exclusion.
Step into a world cloaked in shadows, where ancient powers collide and a lone hero must rise to restore balance. Shade, a determined Shadow Relicant, leads a resourceful group on a thrilling quest: to restore the Council of Eight and save the realm from a sinister foe. With his and his companions' unique abilities, Shade battles formidable adversaries and uncovers hidden strengths while confronting the hauntin
Oprah... Stephen Fry... Barack Obama... Adele...
These are just some of the people who have not endorsed or even heard of this book!
Despite that lack of acclaim, anyone can enjoy these one-liners and wisecracks!
Enjoy a rib-tickling read while preparing to impress on a night out, or dip into for just the right line on any subject to put smiles on faces.
Stay well.
Bill Jes
